Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE XXXII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish during the Year ending December 31st, 1899.
| Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | 3,441 | 38 Congenital malformations | - | |
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 39 Old age | 138 | ||
| 40 Apoplexy | 6 | |||
| 1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 28 |
| Unvaccinated | — | 42 Convulsions | 1 | |
| No Statement | — | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 141 | |
| 2 Measles | 36 | |||
| 3 Scarlet fever | 4 | |||
| 4 Typhus | — | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 14 | |
| 5 Relapsing fever | — | |||
| 6 Influenza | 175 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 177 | |
| 7 Whooping Cough | 27 | |||
| 8 Diphtheria | 9 | 46 Laryngitis | 2 | |
| 9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 10 | 47 Bronchitis | 918 | |
| 48 Pneumonia | 37 | |||
| 49 Pleurisy | 21 | |||
| 10 Enteric fever | 29 | |||
| 50 Other respiratory diseases | 22 | |||
| 11 Simple cholera | - | |||
| 12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 102 | 51 Dentition | 4 | |
| 13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy sore throat | 34 | |
| 14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 20 | |
| 15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | - | |
| 16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 Diseases of liver | 22 | |
| 56 Other diseases of digestive system | 169 | |||
| 17 Venereal affections | 18 | |||
| 18 Erysipelas | - | |||
| 19 Pyæmia and Septicaemia | 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 11 | |
| 20 Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
| 21 Tabes Mesenterica | - | |||
| 22 Tubercular Meningitis | - | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 31 | |
| 28 Phthisis | 125 | |||
| 59 Diseases of generative system | 32 | |||
| 24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 12 | |||
| 25 Other Zymotic diseases | 13 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 4 | |
| DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC. | ||||
| 61 Diseases of locomotive system | 135 | |||
| 26 Thrush | — | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 56 | |
| 27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 1 | |||
| 28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | ||
| 29 Alcoholism | 17 | |||
| 30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 20 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 24 | |
| 64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
| 65 Cut, stab | - | |||
| 31 Rheumatism | 267 | 66 Burn or scald | 4 | |
| 32 Gout | 41 | 67 Poison | 1 | |
| 83 Rickets | 1 | |||
| 68 Drowning | — | |||
| 34 Cancer | 18 | |||
| 69 Suffocation | — | |||
| 35 Other constitutional diseases | 53 | |||
| 70 Otherwise | 58 | |||
| 36 Premature birth | — | |||
| 37 Atelectasis | — | 71 Other Causes | 355 | |